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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Geffner or African Pride Atemoya?
« on: April 18, 2013, 11:19:41 PM »
Thank you JF for the confirmation.  I believe the consensus is African Pride.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Geffner or African Pride Atemoya?
« on: April 17, 2013, 11:54:52 PM »
Well, they're finally ripe.  This is my first time tasting an atemoya.  The flesh around the seeds are a little chewy and around that is creamy like a cherimoya.  Although they taste quite nice, I find that I like cherimoya considerably better.  Don't get me wrong, I've had bad tasting cherimoyas and this atemoya is much better tasting than that... if that makes any sense.  :o :P

Here are pictures of the fruit:






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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Geffner or African Pride Atemoya?
« on: April 10, 2013, 12:29:23 PM »
Thank you for everyone's imput.  Bernitsky is difficult to find a good picture of, but it's not a variety that I have ever seen sold in California.

The nursery that I purchased my tree from as I recall, mentioned that it was an Israeli variety often grown and sold in Taiwan.  This information could be an assumption or misinformation for all I know.

That being said, another local nursery has a picture on their website that shows a picture of an African Pride Atemoya.  It's probabaly the closest look to mine.

http://www.papayatreenursery.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=2048

Thanks again, I'll update on taste and take a picture of the inside when they're ready.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Geffner or African Pride Atemoya?
« on: April 09, 2013, 06:42:40 PM »
Thank you Mike T.  They do seem to have some similarities but still look different.  Yours is very uniform in shape as well.  Whatever they are, I just hope they taste good.  How much longer would you say before it's ripe for the picking?

They certainly seem to range in shape (pics from google search):

http://www.flickr.com/photos/3point141/sets/72157626689028625/detail/

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Geffner or African Pride Atemoya?
« on: April 09, 2013, 01:01:26 AM »
Thank you Thera for the tips.  However, African Pride would be bad, as I just grafted African Pride on that tree.  Kind of redundant  :'(

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Geffner or African Pride Atemoya?
« on: April 09, 2013, 12:25:05 AM »
I was told that these were Atemoya from Israel.  I naturally assumed Geffner as a possibility.  Can anyone help me identify if these are indeed Geffner or perhaps African Pride by chance?  Also, how do I know if these are ready to eat?  They're naturally on the lighter green side, so it doesn't appear that they have gotten any lighter in color.  These are all from the same tree, so I hope it will be helpful to identify.  Thanks for your assistance.









Here's also one of a supposed Dr. White seedling.  Although the leaves certainly look like a cherimoya (sorry no actual leaves in the picture), the shape of the fruit looks kinda atemoya-ish?




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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Jakfruit in March
« on: April 08, 2013, 11:13:07 PM »

I saw Jackfruits by the pallet here this past weekend in So. California.  They're from Mexico and selling for $0.79/per pound.  I was tempted to buy one, but didn't feel like doing all the cleaning.  :-\





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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Jaboticabaholics Anonymous
« on: March 25, 2013, 10:50:49 PM »
Welcome and congratulations Harvey!  It looks much bigger than the last picture I saw of it in 2011.  I've yet to get a single flower on any of mine :(.

Norm

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Cocktail Jaboticaba
« on: March 07, 2013, 12:05:56 PM »
Quote from: fruitlovers on March 06, 2013, 11:54:27 PM
What is the source of your M. grandiflora?


Oscar,

I got them from a source in Israel of all places.  I was only able to find a cached listing of these seeds.  There's some nice pics.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:-c3fS4V6q9UJ:http://www.ebay.es/itm/180973783584%2B7+fresh+seeds+of+Jaboticaba+Grauda+(Myrciaria+grandifolia)&hl=en&gbv=2&ct=clnk

Thanks for the confirmation Adam.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Cocktail Jaboticaba
« on: March 06, 2013, 11:08:40 PM »
Quote from: ASaffron on March 03, 2013, 11:56:49 PM
they're totally different...off the bat, I see there's hair on your grandifolia...and I bet the veins on the undersides of the leaves are much more salient on the grandifolia...

take a gander and report your findings!


Adam,

Here is the backside of the M. grandiflora.  It does appear that the veins are more prominent than M. vexator.  However the leaves seem more narrow than yours?  Perhaps because mine are from young seedling leaves vs. your mature leaves?



Here is the back of the M. vexator for comparison.



eNorm

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Cocktail Jaboticaba
« on: March 04, 2013, 12:24:18 AM »
Good eye Adam!  I didn't notice fuzzy on the leaves shining from the sun.  I'll have to take a better look tomorrow of the underside of the leaves.

Thanks Oscar, I'm anxious to see your leaves as well.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Cocktail Jaboticaba
« on: March 03, 2013, 11:52:36 PM »
Quote from: ASaffron on October 06, 2012, 10:59:51 PM
I collect the different Plinia/Myrciaria just for having different foliage.

Here is a group of pics that shows the differences thereof.

When I saw the paulista M. cauliflora, I had to have it...so I cut off 3 branches from my buddy Ed's tree..and now I have 3 Paulista trees.  The leaves are really something else.

Here are some varieties I don't quite know about...(i'm uploading some of these pics for a friend who is helping me identify these, so please pardon my posts if they seem a bit redundant).

grandifolia??

same as above



Hi Adam,

Here's a picture of my seedlings of M. grandifolia.  The two on the bottom are suposed to be M. grandifolia and the two on top are M. vexator that I received from you.  They seem nearly identical to me... no?



Oscar,

Did you ever get a chance to take pictures of the leaves of your M. grandifolia?

Thanks,
eNorm

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Pitahaya
« on: February 28, 2013, 04:39:56 PM »
Quote from: bangkok on February 28, 2013, 07:25:24 AM
Thailand has no restrictions for importing plants as far as i know. But to be sure i better ask it to some people around me or maybe somebody on this forum knows the rules exactly.

Hi bangkok,

You could probably get a hold of Sainarong from the Yahoo Pitaya Fruit Group as he is in Thailand and he has his own red fleshed varieties growing as well as many of the American varieties.  I forget which part of Thailand he's in, but he may be a good source for you.

eNorm

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Pitahaya
« on: February 27, 2013, 10:44:26 AM »
Hi NullZ,

I just barely planted it in the ground last summer and it's only about 2 or 3 ft tall with no branching.  Hopefully soon it'll start growing and branching.  I'll let you know.


Adam,

I have been growing the Zamorano for a few years and it's pretty productive.  The fruit has a nice balance of sweet and tart.  It's not a huge fruit... maybe less than a pound.  I'm trying to recall, but I don't think it has been self-fertile for me.  The times when I only had flowers from Zamorano, it didn't produce a fruit when hand-pollinated.

eNorm

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Pitahaya
« on: February 26, 2013, 09:26:50 PM »
Hi Luc,

I actually have one of these planted out from Leo.  It's been pretty slow growing for me so far, but I hope it speeds up this year.  I've yet to taste the fruit, but Leo says it's very tasty.

eNorm

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Cherimoya taste-testing
« on: February 02, 2013, 12:38:23 AM »
I was there this morning, but I have to say I was a little underwhelmed by the taste in general.  As JF mentioned, it seems that the weather had a lot to do with that this year.  Some were way too ripe and others were barely soft.  That being said, I did enjoy El Bumpo, Lucida, and Orton quite a bit.

I had a couple of El Bumpos from my tree this year and it was mostly seeds and I wasn't that impressed by the taste.  At least from today's tasting, I know that it can taste better.  I also had several Honeyhart this year and they were pretty good.  I still have a Sabor on the tree and last year, it was excellent.

Below are some pictures I took of each fruits tasted today.  Some are a bit blurry, but you get the idea.  Others may have taken better pictures.









eNorm

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Selma Cherimoya
« on: July 30, 2012, 04:41:04 PM »
Hi Ed,

I think I can help you out.  I'll send you an email.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: My Jaboticaba Collection
« on: July 17, 2012, 05:10:38 PM »
Quote from: Jacob13 on June 09, 2012, 09:20:31 AM

"Paul Thompson" Jaboticaba -  This is from a Jaboticaba that was owned and selected by Paul Thompson. Apparently, the fruit are very large, almost golf ball in size. The leaves on this one are huge. That is all I know about this one.




 - Jacob


Jacob,

I hope this doesn't burst any bubbles.  However, I thought the following statement was rather interesting.

"Jaboticaba Myrciaria cauliflora
Paul had one jaboticaba tree. Over a period of twelve years it did not bloom at all, and thus produced no fruit."

http://www.crfg.org/images/Paul%20Thompson.pdf

It doesn't sound too promising.  What's sad, is I just picked one up yesterday :( .

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Jaboticabas & such ...
« on: July 04, 2012, 05:12:44 PM »
Thanks nullzero!

I have a few others in my collection that are much smaller.  I just wish they would grow a little faster.   :(

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Jaboticabas & such ...
« on: July 04, 2012, 02:56:31 PM »
Quote from: ASaffron on July 03, 2012, 11:35:53 PM
Ben used the "f" word!??  no way he rocks!!! I never though he had a sailors mouth like me'!!  I love to use vulgar words to express myslef I just can't help it.

he had a large leaf jabo that he swears isn't fuzzy...did u see a tree that looked like spirito santensis , but wasn't?? he called it large leaf...I think he's just got spirito santensis, and not some other large leaf type...and is mistaken...but I'm not sure.



Adam,

This is my "Giant Jaboticaba" as Ben calls it.  Does it look like spirto santesis, which is in the small pot right next to it.



Here is the close-up of the "Giant Jaboticaba" leaves



...and the leaves of spirito santensis for comparison



lastly of 'Paulista'



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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Sick DragonFruit
« on: June 29, 2012, 10:03:10 PM »
Hi Natalie,

They certainly don't look too good.  It would seem like there could be some sort of bacterial or fungal infection and they look like they're drying up and shriveling from the inside?  It's a bit difficult to tell from the pictures.  What type of potting soil are you using?  Is it airy or very dense soil from the ground outside?  The dragonfruit plants prefer a light organic soil with good drainage.  It prefers moist but not wet soil.  Has it been outside at all in the winter cold?  How long has it looked like this?  Do you have pictures of it before?

eNorm

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Thai Mangoes.... from Mexico?
« on: June 28, 2012, 11:25:16 AM »
Tim,

It's at a place called "New Farm Fresh Produce Market" in Rosemead, CA.  Yes... long name.  At least that's what it says on my receipt.  It's in the San Gabriel Valley, so a bit far for you.  The rambutan were definitely fresh and tasty.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Thai Mangoes.... from Mexico?
« on: June 28, 2012, 10:54:06 AM »
Thank you Tropicdude and Lycheeluva for your replies.  I should have looked up the PLU #, but didn't think of it at the time.  I looked up the distributor website and didn't see this type of Mango available, but they did have Manila/Ataulfo.  I also bought some Muscat grapes from the same distributor and that wasn't on their website either, so I didn't give much to the stated varieties.

I think they're much more enlongated and not as plump as the Manila/Ataulfo.  I tried one of the green ones and it was very sweet and not juicy as it does seem to be sold for not so ripe eating.  It wasn't crunchy, but somewhat soft.  It had a very distinct flavor, but I haven't had many magoes other than store bought varieties here in So. California to know what it is.

I've purchased Thai Jujube at this market, which tates quite different than typical jujube and much larger.  I've also purchased Thai bananas here as well.  They seem to have quite the Thai influence.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Thai Mangoes.... from Mexico?
« on: June 27, 2012, 11:46:04 PM »
I stopped by a local Asian market and found some Thai Mangoes... so the sign says.  Some are quite green and others look more ripe?  When I got them home, I noticed a label that says they're from Mexico.  Anyone have any ideas what kind of mangoes these might be?











While I was at it... I picked up some Rambutan





and some Cherimoyas



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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Clausena lansium, also known as a wampee
« on: May 13, 2012, 12:48:05 PM »
James,

Unfortunately, mine hasn't fruited yet.  My tree hasn't done very well the past year as it's still in a pot and I've had to move it a few too many times.  Right now, I'm getting quite a bit of new growth and lot of the old leaves are actually falling off.

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